Say hello to the new MOTOMUSIC slider that integrates Microsoft Windows Media DRM and other technologies

Today at CES, Motorola announced it is delivering on an
existing relationship with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Windows Media
technologies into MOTOMUSIC mobile devices. Built on Motorola’s new Linux-Java
software platform, the MOTOMUSIC devices give consumers an easy music-sync
experience with Windows Media Player on Windows XP and Vista-based PCs and provide
access to content from a wide range of online music stores. Consumers can not
only take their personal CD collections with them, but can also transfer music
acquired from hundreds of download or subscription stores and play it back on their
Motorola handsets.

The MOTORIZR Z6 will be the first Motorola handset to
include Microsoft Windows Media technologies including Windows Media DRM,
Windows Media Audio and Media Transfer Protocol. Unlike the ubiquitous RAZR and
KRZR flip phones, the RIZR comes in a slider form factor and offers simple
connectivity to Windows-based PCs via USB 2.0. By supporting MTP, Windows Media
Player will automatically recognize the MOTORIZR Z6, letting users sync music
from the PC to the phone from over 200 music stores worldwide.

“The MOTORIZR Z6 is the world’s first Linux-Java music phone
integrating the full suite of Windows Media technologies,” says Scott
Durchslag, corporate vice-president of Product and Xperience Invention,
Motorola Mobile Devices. “This will enable consumers to access whatever music
content they want, from the music store they love wherever they are as simply
and seamlessly as possible.”

In addition to making the new MOTOMUSIC handsets
interoperable with PCs, Motorola and Microsoft plan to provide MOTOMUSIC
handset offerings that are tailored for discovering and acquiring music over an
operator’s 3G network.

The new MOTORIZR Z6 is expected to be available in the first
half of 2007.

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